#reason

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#been #certain #contemporary #feminism #issues

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#between #close #dependence #each #individual

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' ↗

— Dave Barry

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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#exactly #gone #gone with the wind #i #just

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#better #every #good #good reason #lie

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#be different #because #different #i #i think

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#baby #breaking #depression #down #i